Radar sensor for detection of anti-armour missiles

The anti-armour missiles represent one of the biggest threads for any military vehicle, both in a standard combat or e.g. during UN humanitarian as well as peacekeeping operations. Millions of extremely dangerous missiles, able to break-through even tank armour-plates, are widely spread even in the worldpsilas most dangerous hot spots and geostrategic areas. Standard lighter vehicles and helicopters alike do not have, by themselves, any chance against them. As a result, the possibly more efficient methods of defense against them are under scrutiny and are subject to a continuous development. Active defense methods are based on a detection of the thread missiles and activation of an efficient counter-measure. The presented paper describes parameters of two most dangerous missiles and calculates parameters decisive for their detection in microwave frequency range. The practical measurements verify and confirm the calculated detection parameters.